Will this work with only 1 drive or do you have to pair them?
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You can use it with one drive but you will not be able to use a RAID configuration.
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If you have a Black and Green mirrored together, it will handle writes at only the speed of the slower drive - both drives must be written. Reads should be shared between the drives - I dunno if the OS would be smart enough to do more reads from the Black than the Green - I wouldn't count on it. Overall, not recommended. Best to use two of the same drives for a mirror.
506901
You sure can. I have mine working with one WD red 3tb hard drive. Will upgrade to another one same capacity once I get this one full.
1815471
You can't daisy chain these drives since they only have one usb port. Both must be connected to your computer at the same time in order to transfer data from one another
1555872
You should ALWAYS have redundancy, especially with these kinds of drives. Yeah, they are cheap, but your data isn't. Buy two and use one as a backup. I learned the hard way myself.
1273364
But how would you add more than one external drive? Would you just use a USB hub?
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You could use two like that but it would not be daisy chaining. There would be no connection from the first drive to the second, but the computer would see both.
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Anthoney, I need a bit more information, as to what you have done already and the results you have gottern so far and the specific things that are not working with this unit, then prehaps I can tell you what you want to know, first of all make sure that the drives are being recognized, are you trying to use this as a stand alone or with you computer??
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I'm not sure either. I've only used mine for 1 drive. I doubt it would work for 2 at once. You would probably need 2 adapters and some software that could reconstruct the data, which is shared between the 2 raid 0 drives.
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With the USB connection it will see both drives. If you use eSATA, you can see only one.
1870901
Yes it does work with 3Tb drives, but as Mr. Hastings hint at the duel drive does not work very well. I have 4 single drives and they work great but the one duel drive I have only works with one drive, if I put the second drive in windows 7 starts dropping both drives. Stick with the single and you will be better off.
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it only recognizes one external drive ,they both would work but you couldnt open both to transfer data between each other
1160254
I dont know since I only tried one drive in non RAID mode but it will boot windows from the one drive
1303012
If the 2 drives are individual and not set up in a raid, they will be read by this enclosure. Personally I have discontinued external enclosures and gone to bare drives with 2 of the dual docks. Cheaper and much easier stacking bare drives than a bunch of external enclosures cabled up. You can get plastic enclosures to store the hard drives.
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It depends on how many drives you will use simultaneously. If it is only one or even two, you will have no problem powering them. However if you will use more than two drives, you should consider buying an externally powered USB hub.
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Hi. I had this item and due to MY own stupidity in the placement of some coffee, well, I need another. I realize this is a late answer, but just in case you have not purchased one yet: When you say "must be read together", it sounds like you're running either a RAID 0 (Striping) or RAID 1 (Mirroring") solution, but even if not, the product description answers your question: Read & Write 2 Hard Drives simultaneously (Note: Device's eSATA must support the "port multiplier" function to see both drives, USB will automatically detect) The portion marked "NOTE" is especially important... A local Big Box store has them on a sale ending today, but I prefer buying from Amazon so thought I'd check if they offer it. They do, so I'm purchasing my replacement today. I've used only Thermaltake power supplies for years, and their name on any product is a thumbs up to purchase :)
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I doubt it. I am not able to make it work with very many drives. I have gotten it to work with 1 WD 320 drive, but almost all others I have tried it won't talk to or requires that I format them every time I try and use them.